I was
sitting in my car waiting to turn onto a street. Cars kept coming both ways. I kept looking
and they kept coming. I realized that I
could try to turn, but it would probably just end up creating an accident. However, if I waited there would be a wide
opening, in time. I think that life is
like this. We may feel like God isn’t
showing us what to do, so we try to forge ahead with our own plans. But really it isn’t God’s timing. So if we decide to move forward in our own
timing we may just create a mess. That’s
why we need to lean into God and wait for His perfect timing.
However,
this is not an excuse for complacency.
Because while we’re waiting on God’s plans for us, He has already given
us some very clear plans in Scripture.
There are things we are called to do and ways we are called to live laid
out in the Bible. If we aren’t doing
these things, we aren’t living up to our calling. By doing that, we are committing sins of
omission, by failing to do what we’re supposed to do.
It’s not
okay to live your own life and say you’re living it for God. For one, that’s just hypocritical, but also,
we are only alive because Christ died for us.
So it’s not our lives we’re living, it is Christ’s life in us. Live like it’s Christ life in you, live with
an eternal perspective, and live with a missional mindset. God has great plans for your life, He’s just
waiting for you to turn the life He’s given you over to Him.
